Thornythwaite Wood

Thornythwaite Wood is a forest in Cartmel Fell, Westmorland and Furness, England. Thornythwaite Wood is situated nearby to the locality Burblethwaite Mill, as well as near Ravensbarrow Old Man.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Gummer’s How and St Anthony’s Church.

Gummer’s How

Peak

Photo: StephenDawson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Gummer's How is a hill in the southern part of the Lake District, on the eastern shore of Windermere, near its southern end. How, derived from the Old Norse word haugr, is a common local term for a hill or mound.

St Anthony’s Church

Church

Photo: George Hopkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.

St Anthony's Church, is in the village of Cartmel Fell, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Kendal, the archdeaconry of Westmorland and Furness, and the diocese of Carlisle.

Simpson Ground Reservoir

Reservoir

Photo: Michael Graham, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Simpson Ground Reservoir is a reservoir in Cumbria, England, near the southeastern end of Windermere. It is located within a Forestry Commission conifer plantation, to the east of Staveley-in-Cartmel and provides fresh water supply for Grange-Over-Sands and the Haweswater aqueduct to Barrow.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lakeside and Witherslack.

Lakeside

Hamlet

Photo: DS Pugh, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Lakeside is a village in Newby Bridge at the south end of Windermere, England. Now in the county of Cumbria, before county reorganisation of 1974 it was in Lancashire, as part of the region known as Furness.

Witherslack

Village

Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Witherslack is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Witherslack, Meathop and Ulpha, in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the south of Cumbria, England.